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Australian Festival of Chamber Music
When: 31 July – 9 August
Where: Townsville, Australia
Tel: +61 74771 4144
Web: www.afcm.com.au
The Australian Festival of Chamber Music has good reason to be in a celebratory mood, what with this year marking its 30th anniversary. To help push the boat out in style, artistic director Kathryn Stott has chosen a theme of ‘Carnival’ for a ten-day event that will see the likes of cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and violinists Alexander Sitkovetsky and Lise Berthaud – and, of course, pianist Stott herself – flying over from Europe and pitching up in this handsome city on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Australian talent is, of course, well-represented too, ranging from 12-year-old violinist Christian
Li, the festival’s youngest performer, to didgeridoo legend William Barton and the Goldner Quartet, who are celebrating
